<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>Please see below for information about the call for
Linguistic Geography papers at this year's meeting in Denver. Feel free to reach
out to me directly if you have any questions!<br>...<br><br><strong>Call for Papers: Linguistic Geography</strong><br>AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, 23 March–27 March, 2023<br><br>Organizer: Greg Niedt<br><strong>Deadline for abstracts</strong>: Sunday, 30 October, 2022<br><br>The
Linguistic Geography sessions at AAG draw on interdisciplinary
connections—human geography and linguistic anthropology, sociology and
media studies—to consider how language and discourse shape conceptions
of space and place. What things do we say about places that shape our
attitudes towards them? How do the communities that inhabit them use
language(s), from signage to graffiti, in official policy and everyday
conversation, to express themselves or make claims to a place? The
session is intended to show how questions like this can enrich geography
work in a wide variety of spaces, as well as amplify the voices of the
people and communities who occupy them.<br><br>(The work of Yi-Fu Tuan
has been especially influential on this approach to the field; in light
of his passing, this session is dedicated in his memory.)<br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline"><strong>Call for participation:</strong></span><br>The
call is open for any researchers investigating topics such as language
and space, linguistic landscapes (language use in public spaces),
language and power, ethnophysiography, toponymy, dialectology,
linguistic cartography, metageography, and the representation of places
in discourse. Presenters are especially encouraged to consider how their
work aligns with the annual theme, "Toward More Just Geographies," and its
focus on "the spatial dimensions, scope, and scale of racial and social
justice, as well as obstacles to its realization."<br><br>
Please send your abstract to Greg Niedt at <a href="mailto:gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu">gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu</a> by <strong>Sunday, 30 October</strong>
if you would like your paper to be considered for the session. When
emailing, please also indicate whether you plan (at this point) to <strong>attend in-person or virtually</strong>;
advance notice will be needed to set up the session as a hybrid. (Note
that participants must also register for the conference and submit their
abstract to AAG's session gallery by <strong>Thursday, 10 November</strong>; see <a href="https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/</a> for more details.) And of course, feel free to send this call to others who might be interested!<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Greg Niedt (organizer)<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">=====<br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Dr. Greg Niedt (<i>they/he</i>)</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Department of Liberal Arts</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts<br><a href="mailto:gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu" target="_blank">gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu</a><br><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/linguistic-landscapes-beyond-the-language-classroom-9781350125360/" target="_blank">Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom</a><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Essentials-of-Visual-Interpretation/Reynolds-Niedt/p/book/9780367491284" target="_blank">Essentials of Visual Interpretation</a></span></span><br></div></div></div></div>